My colleague Joan Pong Linton has asked me to forward this invitation to the
list. I had mentioned to her that Nashe's name had come up when
participants on the list were suggesting paper topics in response to Bill
Oram's question.
Judith Anderson
Teaching Thomas Nashe: Invitation to Participate in a Survey
Dear colleagues,
Critical interest in Thomas Nashe (the Elizabethan writer best known for his
pamphleteering and The Unfortunate Traveller) has been on the rise, as seen
in the published monographs, biographies, articles, book chapters, notes,
and dissertations that focus on his writings. In the last decade alone,
publications on Nashe appearing in the MLA Bibliography account for about a
fifth of the entire list. Scholars have taken Nashe's works in important new
directions, from authorship, the print market, literary influences and
relations, to the study of prose, narrative, satire, romance, pornography,
and religious and other controversies, to the writing of the city, the
nation, the ocean, and of poverty, disease, and violence, to applications of
media, textual, and actor-network theories, and so on.
These recent developments prompt us to ask whether there has been a similar
surge of interest in teaching the works of Thomas Nashe. In setting up this
survey, we are interested not only in individual perspectives but also in
gaining a broader view of how teachers situate Nashe's works both within the
field of early modern English literature and within their institutions'
undergraduate and graduate curricula. In other words, we are interested in
how teachers position Nashe's literary performance in the cultivation of
students' intellectual curiosity and capacity for knowledge-making.
To this end, we invite you to participate in a brief online survey on
"Teaching Thomas Nashe" that should take about 15-20 minutes to complete. We
hope to publish our findings in an essay to be included in an anthology in
progress of Nashe criticism. To access the survey simply click on the link
below.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3T7GGVX
Should you encounter any problems accessing the survey, please contact Joan
Linton at [log in to unmask] .
Many thanks,
Joan Linton
Indiana University
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